Guest guest Posted November 14, 2000 Report Share Posted November 14, 2000 FROM TOI SACRED SPACE Towards Perfection Wise, self-controlled, and tranquil souls, who are contented in spirit, and who practice austerity and mediation in solitude and silence, are freed from all impurity, and attain by the path of liberation to the immortal, the truly existing, the changeless Self. Mundaka Upanishad 1.2.11 The moral man's life is an exemplification of the universal moral order, chung yung, because he is a moral person who unceasingly cultivates his true self or moral being. The life of the vulgar person, on the other hand, is a contradiction of the universal order, because he is a vulgar person who in his heart has no regard for, or fear of, the moral law. Doctrine of the Mean 2 Because the perfect wisdom tames and transforms him, wrath and conceit he does not increase. Neither enmity nor ill-will take hold of him, nor is there even a tendency towards them. He will be mindful and friendly...It is wonderful how this perfection of wisdom has been set up for the control and training of the bodhisattvas. Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines 3.51-54 Of all the created things or beings of the universe, it is the two-legged men alone who, if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with - or may know Wakan-Tanka. Black Elk You would attain to divine perfection. And yet not turn your back upon the world. H W Longfellow, Michael Angelo. The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. Stanley J Randall _______________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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